Thursday, January 17, 2013

S Anthony, abbot: "you can make me clean"

Going even further,
Jesus perfects the dietary law, so important in Jewish daily life, by
revealing its pedagogical meaning through a divine interpretation:
"Whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him. . . (Thus he
declared all foods clean.). . . What comes out of a man is what defiles a
man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts. . ."
In presenting with divine authority the definitive interpretation of
the Law, Jesus found himself confronted by certain teachers of the Law
who did not accept his interpretation of the Law, guaranteed though it
was by the divine signs that accompanied it. This was the case
especially with the sabbath laws, for he recalls, often with rabbinical
arguments, that the sabbath rest is not violated by serving God and
neighbor, which his own healings did.

Liturgy the "apex"

Raccomandato

MCITL 10th Anniversary: The Catechism and Scriptures together in the Sunday homily

"The integration of elements of the Catechism of the Catholic Church with the readings from the Lectionary offers us an opportunity to demonstrate how the Word of God is able to animate our personal and communal life with Christ and, at the same time, articulate the Church’s faith that has been immeasurably enriched by the living tradition of twenty centuries."

-- Archbishop Donald Wuerl, intervention at the Synod of Bishops on the Word of God